Higher Stubbin: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, when the motor has not run, it is drained and fully purged where the car is in Higher Stubbin. Here in advance? In that case what follows explains why it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel goes to the motor — yet many current diesels seen around Higher Stubbin and Hoober carry a second fluid as well. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to clean them, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Higher Stubbin: how it occurs
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Haugh Road before work, or in the car park outside The Marquis on the way home.
Next, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
Third, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as easily, and once the tip begins, no part halts it. Low Stubbin or the middle of Higher Stubbin: it is the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Abdy or a forecourt in Higher Stubbin.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Many motors give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Look for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask as you collect a hire car or fleet car — from Swinton (South Yorks)'s car park, perhaps — rather than once the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across South Yorkshire that is.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and never rushed beside Symonds Avenue on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The two behind a single flap? Then confirm the lid on the diesel filler is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop right there. Never carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Higher Stubbin already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. Keep your ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself runs the pump. Filling up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Shell, another forecourt nearby or another — the attendants will normally help roll the car away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Higher Stubbin.
When your engine has run already, pull over safely then turn it off. The next exit means the place to leave if you're on the M1, under 5 miles from Higher Stubbin. Mileage matters — a short hop across Higher Stubbin makes a smaller job than heading under 10 miles towards Sheffield — so say roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Higher Stubbin, and what takes place next
The van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, beside St Mary, or outside Monkwood Primary School. Both the work and the quote depend on three answers — what fluid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. No one sets off until you've heard our quote over the phone.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, once the tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of it washes out unaided. That is why it matters more. Once the filter has been cleaned — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel goes in, and then your vehicle is tested. Before we go, our engineers start the car and check that it is running properly.
Unstarted cars mostly need a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Higher Stubbin, briefly
Higher Stubbin is a suburban area in South Yorkshire, situated approximately 7.4 miles from Sheffield, and is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Higher Stubbin sits inland, at an elevation of around 111 metres, and is located near other local areas such as Low Stubbin and Nether Haugh. Higher Stubbin has a population of around 1415 people and is part of the wider Sheffield urban area. Higher Stubbin is also relatively distant from London, at around 145.5 miles away.
Higher Stubbin and South Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Nether Haugh and Upper Haugh are among the places near Higher Stubbin, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over S postcodes. A postcode starting S62 7 gets our van to you fastest.
The car doesn't need to shift. Draining takes place right there, be it a drive, a road by Greasbrough Park standing stones climbing wall, or a lay-by towards Mausoleum Plantation. Tricky to explain, like the back of Coronation Drinking Fountain? Close to a county line? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
Higher Stubbin motorists: the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, wherever around South Yorkshire: switch the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.